拆
chāi
Meaning
- to tear down
- to tear open
Definition
把合在一起的东西分开；拆毁；拆除。
To take apart; to dismantle; to demolish.
Usage
常用于物理上拆开物体或拆除建筑，也可用于抽象意义，如拆散关系或分解问题。
Commonly used for physically taking apart objects or demolishing buildings, also used metaphorically for breaking up relationships or decomposing problems.
Examples
- 1 他把玩具拆了重新组装。 (He took the toy apart and reassembled it.)
- 2 工人们正在拆除旧房子。 (Workers are demolishing the old house.)
- 3 这封信很难拆，因为封得很紧。 (This letter is hard to open because it's sealed tightly.)
- 4 他的阴谋被拆穿了。 (His plot was exposed.)
- 5 我们需要把这个问题拆开来分析。 (We need to break this problem down and analyze it.)
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